Sentences with 'imperialist'
Example sentences and phrases with the word imperialist and other words derived from it.
• « Following the Spanish and Portuguese conquest of Central and South America, the other major European states embarked on their own imperialist ventures in the following centuries. »
• « The aftermath of this period of imperialism is still felt today, with national borders and international conflicts equally tied to the patterns set by the imperialist powers more than a century ago. »
• « The cases of the Congo and the genocide of the Herero and Nama peoples are rightly remembered, and studied by historians, as iconic expressions of imperialist violence, but they were only two of the most extreme and shocking examples of the pervasive violence that established and sustained all the imperial conquests of the time. »
• « Here too, the United Nations was generally unable to prevent violence, although at times it did at least provide an ethical framework for historically judging the actions of imperialist powers. »